RDA lecturer consultation times for exams 2009

Hannah Gerber
The following times will be available to the RDAIIA students to come and see their test 2 scripts:
Friday 22 May 2009 10:00 – 12:00
Monday 25 May 2009 09:00 – 11:00
Wednesday 27 May 2009 09:00 – 11:00

Exam consultation times will be:
Thursday 4 June 2009 09:00 – 12:00
Friday 5 June 2009 09:00 – 12:00
Monday 8 June 2009 09:00 – 12:00

Herbert Hove
The following times will be available to the RDAIIA students to come and see their test 2 scripts:
Monday 25 May 2009 11:00 – 13:00
Tuesday 26 May 2009 11:00 – 13:00
Wednesday 27 May 2009 11:00 – 13:00

Exam consultation times will be:
Monday 1 June 2009 10:00 – 13:00
Tuesday 2 June 2009 10:00 – 13:00
Wednesday 3 June 2009 10:00 – 13:00

Jarrod Payne
Exam consultation times will be:
Monday 25 May 08:00 – 11:00
Tuesday 26 May 08:00 – 11:00
Monday 1 June 08:00 – 11:00
Tuesday 2 June 08:00 – 11:00

Ruby Patel
Exam consultation times will be:
Everyday Monday to Friday of the weeks 25 May to 5 June 09:00-13:00

Sumaya Laher
Exam consultation times will be:
Thursday 28 May 12:-00 – 14:00
Tuesday 2 June 09:30 – 11:00
Thursday 4 June 09:30 – 11:00

Adilia Silva
Exam consultation times will be:
Tuesday 2 June 09:30 – 11:30
Wednesday 3 June 09:30 – 11:30
Thursday 4 June 09:30 – 11:30

PSYC2005 RDAIIA EXAM: Instructions & Preparation

Statistics:
All work

Psychometrics:
All the work

Research Design:
All work

Crib Sheets:
1 side of an A4 page for statistics
1 side of an A4 page for Psychometrics & Research Design i.e. ½ page for each – excess will be confiscated/ stapled! You may write any notes, formulae, examples etc… that you wish on the crib sheet within the space permitted.

NB NB: Please ensure that you bring your crib sheets, calculator and all necessary stationery, as well as your STUDENT CARD, to the exam!

PSYC2005 RDAIIA TEST 2: Instructions & Preparation

Statistics:
All work from Unit 1 up to and including unit 8

Psychometrics:
All the work covered up to the end of the week ending 8th of May 2009

Crib Sheets:
1 side of an A4 page for statistics
1 side of an A4 page for Psychometrics

NB: You may only use a maximum of 1 side of an A4 page for a specific section – excess will be confiscated/ stapled! You may write any notes, formulae, examples etc… that you wish on the crib sheet within the space permitted.

NB NB: Please ensure that you bring your crib sheets, calculator and all necessary stationery, as well as your STUDENT CARD, to the test!

TUTORIAL PREPARATION: 18th – 22nd MAY 2009 (10th Tutorial)

In order to prepare for the 10th (and final) tutorial, students should:

a) ANSWER:

- Question 2 of Tutorial Four in the RDA Tut Pack (Part II) – p.4
-
Question 14 of Tutorial Four in the RDA Tut Pack (Part II) – p.5


- The whole of Tutorial 5, with a special emphasis on Q2, Q5, Q6, Q9 and Q11 (RDA Tut Pack Part II – pp. 6-7)

Please note that we may also cover Q12 & Q13 of Tutorial Four, time permitting.

TUTORIAL PREPARATION: 4th – 8th MAY 2009 (9th Tutorial)

In order to prepare for the ninth tutorial, students should:

a) ANSWER:

- Question 14 of Tutorial Three (Normal Distribution and Elementary Hypothesis Testing) in the RDA Tut Pack (Part II) – p.2
- Question 19 of Tutorial Three (Normal Distribution and Elementary Hypothesis Testing) in the RDA Tut Pack (Part II) – p.2
- Question 23 of Tutorial Three (Normal Distribution and Elementary Hypothesis Testing) in the RDA Tut Pack (Part II) – p. 3

TUTORIAL PREPARATION: 27th APRIL – 01st MAY 2009 (8th Tutorial)

- Question 7 (a-b) of Tutorial Three (Normal Distribution and Elementary Hypothesis Testing) in the RDA Tut Pack (Part II) – p.1
- Question 10 of Tutorial Three (Normal Distribution and Elementary Hypothesis Testing) in the RDA Tut Pack (Part II) – p.1
- Question 12 of Tutorial Three (Normal Distribution and Elementary Hypothesis Testing) in the RDA Tut Pack (Part II) – p. 2

TUTORIAL PREPARATION: 20th – 24th APRIL 2009 (7th Tutorial)

In order to prepare for the seventh tutorial, students should:

a) ANSWER:

PSYCHOMETRICS:
- Psychometrics Workbook, p.50-51, TUTORIAL 1 (PIL), Q i-v

- Psychometrics Workbook, after p.53, Multiple Choice, Q 1-21

Psychometrics II Lecture I Notes

Hi,

The lecture notes are available here. Copy the link below into your browser. Once the page has loaded click on file, download, select word and save a copy onto your computer. If you are having trouble email me at jarrod.payne@wits.ac.za or come see me in the lecture or my consult time and i will give them to you on a flash drive.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddh34cxv_0cjfz6wgn

Thanks,
Jarrod Payne

TUTORIAL ATTENDANCE: APRIL 2009

REMINDER:

-Attendance of tutorials is compulsory, and students are expected to be adequately prepared to cover the material set each week by completing the prescribed work for a particular tutorial. There is a DP requirement of 75% attendance of the tutorials, and this will be enforced.
-Tutors are forced to mark a person absent from a tutorial if they arrive without having prepared the work to be covered.
-Students who miss a tutorial are expected to present a valid medical certificate to the tutorial co-ordinator (Sumaya Laher, U306B, 011 717-4532, 0832257328) within 3 days of returning to campus, and if possible, to attend a supplementary tutorial within the same week as the one they have missed.
-It may be that you have attended tuts but for some reason did not get marked on the main register. If this is so, please e-mail Sumaya (sumaya.laher@wits.ac.za) and provide the day of your tut (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc) as well as your venue (OS 5, OS 6, etc) and your attendance will be double checked with the tutor!


THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS HAVE MISSED MORE THAN 75% OF TUTORIALS AND HAVE HAD THEIR DP REQUIREMENT REVOKED. THESE STUDENTS SHOULD CONTACT THE TUTORIAL
CO-ORDINATOR IMMEDIATELY:

Aluf, Dale
Aronstam, Ora
Barrington, Claire
Bulabula, L.
Chimhanda, T.
Connolly, M.
Correia, N.
Covini, D.J.
Dale, C.R.
Davis, C.J.
Gallan, D.A.
Ghomeshi-Bozorg, N
Tshazibane, G R E
Lueni, T – 302255
Kalinda, R I
Klipp, Y
Kukulela, T.V.
Mabuza, Z.M.
Mahamed, S.
Makaringe, M.
Maleka, T.B.
Malinowski, E R
Marishane, M
Melamed, K
Mongala, L.M.
Mtsweni, Z.F
Vilakazi, P L
Ndiriwani, S
Ntloko, S
Pandor, R J
Ratshulumela, M L
Reed, L A
Rolando, L T
Sarang, S
Sephesu, M B
Sing, K
Sobantu, M
Sumption, N
Thompson, W D
Watkin, S

THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS ARE BORDERLINE I.E. IF YOU MISS ONE MORE TUTORIAL WITHOUT A MEDICAL CERTIFICATE/MAKE-UP IN THE SAME WEEK, YOU WILL HAVE YOUR DP REQUIREMENT REVOKED:

Adams, G
Amanjee, M
Baleseng, L
Bhyat, N
Davids, S Y
Du Plessis, N
Duncan, J D
Gordon-Grant, D
Govender, K
Harris, B C
Henderson, A
Ianniello, M
Kirchmann, C E
Kitay, A T
Kopsch, C.L.
Kubheka, N.C
Makhoba, L G
Mashapa, J T
Molefe, O
Moletsane, K
Motaung, K
Mulder, B J
Mullen, J
Ntuli, B L
Pillay, L.
Ramthol, S.
Raymond, S.M.
Serebro, S.
Tshabalala, Z. M
Venter, W C
Vilakazi, N
Zikalala, N
Nogala, L
Peterson, Z
Makhubela, Makhaise


Also note if you tut falls on a public holiday you will be marked present but you need to make up you missed tut in another tut during the same week

TUTORIAL PREPARATION: 13TH – 17th April 2009 (6th Tutorial)

In order to prepare for the sixth tutorial, students should:

a) ANSWER:

- Question 3 (a-g) of Tutorial Three (Normal Distribution & Elementary Hypothesis Testing) in the Stats Tut Pack (Part II) – p 1.
- Question 4 (a-c) of Tutorial Three (Normal Distribution & Elementary Hypothesis Testing) in the Stats Tut Pack (Part II) – p 1.

Note for B-slot research design students

Dear Students (B-Slot)

As promised in lectures, the overhead on qualitative tools.

NOTE:
With quantitative research we utilise internal validity and external validity as evaluative tools to assess the rigour of a research project. These tools are not applied to qualitative research. With qualitative research, credibility, transferability, dependability and confirmability are utilised as evaluative tools to assess the utility of a research project.

• Credibility: research needs to demonstrate that it was conducted in such a manner so as to ensure that the phenomena were accurately identified and described
• Transferability: demonstrating the applicability of one set of findings to another context
• Dependability: researcher attempts to account for changing conditions to the phenomenon chosen for research as well as changes in the design created by increasingly refined understanding of the setting
• Confirmability: is focused on whether the results of the research could be confirmed by another and places the evaluation on the data themselves

Tutorial Preparation :06th April – 10th April 2009 (5th Tutorial)

In order to prepare for the fifth tutorial, students should:

a) ANSWER:

- Question 2 (a-h) of Tutorial Three (Normal Distribution & Elementary Hypothesis Testing) in the Stats Tut Pack (Part II) – p 1.
- Question 6 (a-h) of Tutorial Three (Normal Distribution & Elementary Hypothesis Testing) in the Stats Tut Pack (Part II) – p 1.

RDA Test Consultation Times

Wednesday 18 March: 9:15 - 10:15 - U 306 – Sumaya Laher
Monday 23- March: 9:30 - 10-15 - U 306 - Sumaya Laher
Monday 23- March: 10:00-12:00, 13:30 -14:30 – U 219 – Adilia Silva
Tuesday 17 March: 14:15-15:00 – CB139 – Hannah Gerber
Wednesday 18 March: 9:00-9:45 – CB139 – Hannah Gerber
Wednesday 18 March: 14:15-15:00 – CB139 – Hannah Gerber
Thursday 19 March: 9:00-9:45 – CB139 – Hannah Gerber

Contact Herbert Hove in CB 134, on 011 717 6296 or Herbert.Hove@wits.ac.za for his consultation times

PSYC2005 RDAIIA TEST 1: Instructions & Preparation

Statistics:
All work from the beginning of the module up to and including correlation and regression

Research Design:
Lectures 1- 6 i.e. up to the end of lecture 6, p. 59 of the research design workbook

Crib Sheets:
1 side of an A4 page for statistics
1 side of an A4 page for research design

NB: You may only use a maximum of 1 side of an A4 page for a specific section – excess will be confiscated/ stapled! You may write any notes, formulae, examples etc… that you wish on the crib sheet within the space permitted.

NB NB: Please ensure that you bring your crib sheets, calculator and all necessary stationery, as well as your STUDENT CARD, to the test!

Tutorial Preparation: 16th – 20th March 2009 (4th Tutorial)

In order to prepare for the fourth tutorial, students should:

a) ANSWER:
- Question 2 (a-h) of Tutorial Two (Correlation & Regression) in the RDA Tut Pack (Part I) – p 6.
- Question 6 (a-f) of Tutorial Two (Correlation & Regression) in the RDA Tut Pack (Part I) – p 7.

Please note:
* You may not have covered all the work for this tutorial in class prior to the tutorial (esp. the Monday and Tuesday groups) – however this section is in the test!
* There will be NO tutorials in the last week of the first quarter (23rd - 27th March 2009), however tutorials will begin again on the first day of the second quarter i.e. from the 06th April 2009. Preparation for this tutorial will be posted next week and you are expected to complete it over the study break!!!

Searching for relevant Journal articles

1) Use Google Scholar to locate relevant articles
- If you are using the Wits system, there will be something next to the article to the effect, “Full text available @ wits” or similar.

2) Go to Wits homepage: http://web.wits.ac.za. Click on “Libraries” in Quickfinder. On Library homepage, click on “Research Resources”, then “Electronic Databases”, then “Title Listing”. Choose appropriate database, eg. Proquest, African Studies, EBSCO Host (Academic Search Premier), African Studies, SABINET.
- Full text articles are available on most databases now but if you need to access a journal, most Psychology journals are in the Wartenweiler or Cullen basements

Tutorial Preparation: 9th – 13th March 2009 (3rd Tutorial)

In order to prepare for the third tutorial, students should answer:

a) Research Design: Self-Study, Lecture 5 (AIDS ad example) – Questions a – e, pp. 46-47.
b) Research Design: Self-Study, Lecture 6 (recorded laughter example) – Questions 1-7 and Question 9, pp. 58-59.

c) Q12, i-iv, Tutorial 1 – Descriptive Statistics, p.5, in Statistics Tutorial Pack 1
d) Q 14, i-iv, Tutorial 1 - Descriptive Statistics, p.5, in Statistics Tutorial Pack 1

Tutorial Preparation: 02nd – 06th MARCH 2009 (2nd Tutorial)

In order to prepare for the second tutorial, students should:

a) ANSWER:
- Question 1 (i-xii) of Tutorial One (Descriptive Statistics) in Statistics Tutorial Pack I – p. 2 and p.3.
- Q11 of Tutorial One (Descriptive Statistics) in Statistics Tutorial Pack I – p. 4.

NB: Please note that this tutorial may cover some work not yet fully addressed in class, particularly for earlier tutorials in the week. Students should attempt the set work as far as they are able, but can leave out specific questions relating to issues they have not yet addressed in class.

Tutorial Preparation: 23rd – 27th February 2009 (1st Tutorial)

In order to prepare for the first tutorial, students should:

a) Read through both the course outline and the tutorial outline and make note of any questions they have

b) Complete Questions 1-4 of the ‘Statistics Introductory Tutorial’ on the left-hand side of p.2 of Statistics Tutorial Pack I

Class Reps – PSYC 2005

Your elected class reps for each slot are as follows:

(SLOT B)
Kgololosego Sebolela – kgolo.cathy@gmail.com
Tsatsawani Mkhombo – teemk@webmail.co.za
Lucy Perold – lucyperold@gmail.com

(SLOT A)
Dan Taviv - dantaviv@hotmail.com

Tuts

Tuts start on the week of the 23rd of Feb 2009. Please ensure that you check your tut allocation and venue on Thursday the 19th of Feb 2009 after 12pm. Also ensure that you do the required work!

Sumaya Laher's Consultation times

Sumaya is available for consultation on Wednesdays from 9:15 - 10:15 and Thursdays from 10:30 to 11:30. Should these times not suit you, please call on 083 225 7328 or e-mail her Sumaya.Laher@wits.ac.za to arrange an appointment. To find out more about Sumaya's research visit her blog on www.slaher.blogspot.com

Introduction greeting

Psyc 2005

Hi and welcome to RDA IIA-2009 (Psyc 2005 Slot A and B)

All difficulties with the course should be referred in the first instance to the lecturer concerned, and then (if necessary) to the course coordinator, who is Dr. Adilia Silva (U219; Tel: 717-4515; Adilia.Silva@wits.ac.za). Her consultation times are Mondays 10am to 12pm and 13:30pm to 14:30pm.

Please remember to check the notice board on a weekly basis.

Good luck for the course!